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Travel special: the world’s wildest hotels

Twenty spectacular places to stay, from a farmstead in New Zealand to a caravan in Bolivia. By Lisa Grainger

Adler Mountain Lodge, Italy

The Times, February 3 2018, 12:01am

1 Adler Mountain Lodge, ItalyThe Dolomites are among the most spectacular mountain ranges in Europe, and Adler Mountain Lodge, 1,800m up, has views of them from its beds, its fire-lit dining tables and its sleek, wooden-clad Tyrolean spa. There are hiking and biking in summer in fields of flowers, skiing in winter and, all year, glorious sunsets, or enrosadira as they’re called locally: blood-red skies, whose colour is intensified by the calcium carbonate and magnesium composition of all the surrounding rocks.Doubles from £340 full board including activities (adler-lodge.com)

2 Raven’s Nest, RomaniaAround the Carpathian mountains lies one of the largest areas of wilderness in Europe. Up a winding road, in a natural dell, sits Raven’s Nest: three traditional 18th-century thatched wooden village…

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